Caltrops - Wall Street Kid





	[quote name="Mischief Maker"][quote name="Bananadine"][quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"]This is the first review I've ever read of the book that made me want to read it, by the way. Do you consider Rand to be a good <i>writer</i>, regardless of her philsophy? I know, it is easier for me just to find out for myself by going to the library, but still, I value your opinion.[/quote] Uhh yes and no. She's awesome at doing what she does, which is to put together a big complicated plot full of semi-colorful characters that behave consistently with their own impossible personalities (and 80% inconsistently with the motives and capacities of actual humans). She's not terribly poetic but she's very confident. She has barely a speck of humor in her, and she writes a nice, grammatical sentence. I don't really know how to describe a writing style it turns out. Basically if you are good at taking video game lore on its own terms, like if you can seriously keep up with all the little details of some goofy JRPG plot without really forcing yourself, then you might take her writing the way I described. If not, then you might run aground on one after another of the million little bits of philosophical maundering and heroically extreme Mary Sue fantasizing the way most people seem to do, until you finally throw the thing away in disgust.[/quote] This all sounds like a LOT of work to read a crappy novel, ICJ. I can imagine using Bananadine's Elves and Orks technique if the book is assigned reading for a class, but sometimes a book/movie/game has to stop hiding behind the "classic" label and stand or fall on its own merits. If you must read an introductory text for a crazy cult, I'm pretty sure Dianetics will be more entertaining for its sci fi bullshit. Or if you must have objectivism, the Satanists are basically just objectivists trying to be really spooky, bringing hilarity to the mix.[/quote]